Lena Headey Quotes
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I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.'
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I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
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Cersei in 'Game of Thrones' is quite solid and stiff.
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I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight.
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I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn't working. It's just an insane sport when you get into it.
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People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'
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I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.
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There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.
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I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.
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I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
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I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.
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I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'
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I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'
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I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.
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You couldn't get less royal than me.
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I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
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That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly... I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'
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I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
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Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
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I like to keep my personal life private.
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Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
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I have a scary side of me.
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I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.
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One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.